Go Gently - Meditation and Insight For Daily Life

Release Self Doubt


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A great reading from, "If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him!" and guided visualization meditation for releasing self doubt. Whether you are trying to make a decision, are feeling anxious about an aspect of your life, or just need a moment to release some tension in your body, this is a great episode to come to each time you want to let a bit of the stress and self doubt go.

Book reference:

If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him

Chapter: Learning to learn pg. 187

"The Zen way to see the truth is through your everyday eyes, It is only the heartless questioning of life-as-it-is that ties a man in knots. A man does not need an answer in order to find peace. He needs only to surrender to his existence, to cease the needless, empty questioning. The secret of enlightenment is "when you are hungry, eat; when you are tired, sleep.

The Zen Master warns: "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!" This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Philosophy, religion, patriotism, are all empty idols. The only meaning in our lives is what we bring to them. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside ourselves can be our master. No one is any bigger than anyone else. There are no mothers or fathers for grown-ups, only sisters and brothers."

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Go Gently - Meditation and Insight For Daily LifeBy Christina Elizabeth Smith

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